A Double Sorrow: "Troilus and Criseyde"
- Author / Editor
- Greenlaw, Lavinia.
A Double Sorrow: "Troilus and Criseyde"
- Published
- London: Faber & Faber, 2014.
New York: Norton, 2015.
- Physical Description
- ix, 217 pp.
- Description
- Reconstructs the narrative progress of TC in a sequence of some 200 seven-line poems, approximating rhyme royal, keyed by line numbers to Chaucer's work, and arranged in five books; running footers link the verse with the plot. Individual poems give voice to the major characters or describe their attitudes, highlighting thematic concerns in Chaucer's work and interpreting the characters' thoughts and feelings and the conditions of their love. The Introduction comments on Chaucer's art and his use of Boccaccio.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations